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Andrea Felicetti

This article analyzes contemporary democracies from a deliberative democratic standpoint and focuses on the connection between public and empowered spaces. The idea of deliberative systems and the concept of “transmission” are introduced to discuss the ways in which the public is able to affect the empowered spaces. While elections perform important democratic functions, alone they cannot provide a good quality means for connecting deliberation in the public to that of actors in the empowered space. The problem with transmission is exacerbated to the extent that alternative forms of participation are neglected. The limited ability of the public to affect the empowered space in deliberative and democratic ways contributes to the crisis of democratic systems. One solution to this problem is to acknowledge the role of citizens' deliberation. The article argues for the systematic introduction of spaces for citizens' deliberation that would parallel existing decision-making.

Time and Transmission in the Anthropology of Christianity

Vlad Naumescu

Acknowledging the growing interest in issues of religious transmission, this article reviews two promising yet contradictory approaches to religion that could be described as historicist and universalist. It offers an alternative view premised on their convergence in a pragmatic approach that can link the material, contextual, and institutional dimensions of transmission with corresponding cognitive, perceptive, and emotional processes. This perspective recognizes the historicity of religious transmission and its cognitive underpinnings while attending to the materiality of its semiotic forms. The article focuses on the relationship between time and transmission in recent ethnographies of Christianity that show how Christian temporalities influence perceptions of social continuity or rupture and individuals' becoming in history. Within this frame, it examines the case of Old Believers, an apocalyptic movement that emerged out of a schism in seventeenth-century Russian Orthodoxy, to indicate how a pragmatic approach works in practice.

An Exploration of European Research Drivers in Central Slovakia

Ivan Murin

This article presents some findings from the ethnography exploration of priority research in the European Research Area. The title of the priority is ‘Connecting People with Heritage’. The Old Generation and Generation Y are the drivers contained in the document’s strategic research agenda (SRA). The research has been conducted by European experts within the Joint Program Initiative in Cultural Heritage (JPI CH). Revitalisation of local society is related to sustainability of specific local forms of culture. The demographic changes, mobility and new forms of cultural transfer are only some of the phenomena affecting generational transmission in the local culture. Both generations are dissimilar in their attitudes to roles and values in the local culture. Generational interactions in a living form of intangible culture in central Slovakia exemplify its significance for anthropology.

Jingyi Li

own. On the other hand, the learning of a target language is often combined with the transmission of a related culture and cultural values. In a way, this explains why the spread of the English language in the wake of globalization is criticized as

Teresa Oteíza, Rodrigo Henríquez and Claudio Pinuer

The purpose of this article is to examine history classroom interactions in
Chilean secondary schools in relation to the transmission of historical memories of
human rights violations committed by Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship from 1973
to 1990. Corpora of this research are comprised of history lessons filmed in the two
types of public schools that coexist in the Chilean educational system, namely government
subsidized and partially subsidized schools. This research draws on linguistics
resources framed by the sociosemiotic perspective of systemic functional
linguistics. We incorporate into this theoretical framework the notions of semantic
gravity and semantic density from legitimation code theory in order to understand
the variations of levels of specialization and abstraction that build cumulative
knowledge and ideological cosmologies when one is dealing with a sensitive and
complex aspect of Chilean society.

How Liberians Responded to the Ebola Epidemic Containment Measures

Umberto Pellecchia

own version of PPE, 1 the officers with teargas were, for the population of West Point, representative of their Government’s response to a high-level public-health concern. This harsh, violent response to controlling the transmission of Ebola was

A Critical Review

Laura Calvet-Mir and Matthieu Salpeteur

rich and diverse body of research, the social network approach started to be used in two main fields: the study of agrobiodiversity management and the study of the transmission of Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK). In these two fields, the understanding

The Identity and Stigmatisation of Ebola Survivors

Emilie Venables

, tiredness and chronic fatigue, hearing difficulties and problems with their eyesight. The potential for the ongoing sexual transmission of the Ebola virus is also an area of concern clinically and in terms of the ongoing stigmatisation of survivors

Embodied Socialities of HIV and Trauma in Uganda

Lotte Meinert and Susan Reynolds Whyte

that are often initially discovered in or by intimate others, even before symptoms are recognised by the patient. Together they allow us to describe four aspects of the sociality of sensations and symptoms: mode of transmission, the shared experience of